Chap. 477.—An ACT to incorporate the Farmers’ Warehouse Compa-
ny, at Blacks and Whites, Nottoway county, Virginia.

Approved March 17, 1884.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
C. B. Hardy, W. H. Bridgeforth, H. H. Seay, R. F. Dillard,
R. W. Sydnor, J. D. Dickerson, and others, and their succes-
sors, and such other persons as may be from time to time as-
sociated with them, be and they are hereby constituted, made
and continued a body politic and corporate by the name style
of the Farmers’ Warehouse Company, and by that name it
may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have perpetual
succession and a common seal, with the power to elect suita-
ble officers; to ordain and establish suitable by-laws and regu-
lations for its government and proper to carry out the ob-
jects of its organization: provided such by-laws and regula-
tions shall not bein conflict with the laws of the United
States or the state of Virginia.

2. The capital stock of the company shall not be less than
fifteen hundred dollars, nor more than fifteen thousand dol-
lars, to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each.

3. The Farmers’ Warehouse Company is authorized to use
the house already erected, and from time to time alter, en-
large and improve the same, and to build such other houses
as to it shall seem desirable and necessary for the proper con-
duct of its business, said house or houses to be used as a
workhouse or place for the storage, safe-keeping and sale of
tobacco, grain, cotton and other products, with power and
authority to the corporation to demand and have reasonable
compensation for the storage and sale of said products.

4. The corporation is authorized to hold and acquire so
much real estate at Black and Whites, in the county of Not-
toway, as may be necessary for the proper conduct of its busi-
ness, not to exceed five acres.

5. The real estate of Blacks and Whites, in the county of
Nottoway, and to which the stockholders of the corporation
now have an equitable right, may be conveyed by the party
or parties holding the legal title thereto, to the Farmers’
Warehouse Company, and when so conveyed shall vest in,
and become the property of the said corporation, to be repre-
sented by the capital stock, which shall be deemed personal
property, and shall be assignable, with its consent, on such
terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the by-laws.

6. This act shall be in force from its passage and approval,
and shall be subject to amendment, alteration or modification
at the pleasure of the general assembly.